Caitlynn
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 297 births
- Debut · girls
- 19 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,947since 1985
Caitlynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Caitlynn has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2014 | #2,267 | 82 |
| 2013 | #1,977 | 99 |
| 2012 | #1,719 | 120 |
| 2011 | #1,540 | 142 |
| 2010 | #1,342 | 175 |
| 2009 | #1,342 | 178 |
| 2008 | #1,368 | 176 |
| 2007 | #1,340 | 181 |
| 2006 | #1,366 | 168 |
| 2005 | #1,222 | 186 |
| 2004 | #1,107 | 206 |
| 2003 | #1,038 | 220 |
| 2002 | #1,002 | 219 |
| 2001 | #923 | 242 |
| 2000 | #821 | 274 |
| 1999 | #852 | 254 |
| 1998 | #734 | 297 |
| 1997 | #888 | 228 |
| 1996 | #975 | 195 |
| 1995 | #1,107 | 160 |
| 1994 | #985 | 188 |
| 1993 | #1,157 | 153 |
| 1992 | #1,188 | 147 |
| 1991 | #1,609 | 94 |
| 1990 | #1,847 | 77 |
| 1989 | #1,629 | 85 |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Caitlynn! It came in at #4,126, and was given to 19 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2023, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Caitlynn is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#257 · 1 in 1,182
- Idaho#314 · 1 in 1,215
- Missouri#416 · 1 in 2,452
- Oklahoma#435 · 1 in 2,097
- Minnesota#505 · 1 in 3,204
Best ever in a state: #246 in West Virginia, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #257 | 12 | 1 in 1,182 |
| Idaho | #314 | 5 | 1 in 1,215 |
| Missouri | #416 | 12 | 1 in 2,452 |
| Oklahoma | #435 | 8 | 1 in 2,097 |
| Minnesota | #505 | 8 | 1 in 3,204 |
| Louisiana | #509 | 8 | 1 in 2,739 |
| Indiana | #538 | 10 | 1 in 3,330 |
| Kentucky | #588 | 5 | 1 in 4,093 |
| Oregon | #606 | 5 | 1 in 3,293 |
| Ohio | #622 | 13 | 1 in 4,769 |
| Florida | #683 | 17 | 1 in 4,547 |
| Alabama | #691 | 5 | 1 in 4,224 |
| Wisconsin | #710 | 5 | 1 in 5,099 |
| North Carolina | #717 | 9 | 1 in 5,010 |
| Virginia | #718 | 7 | 1 in 5,075 |
| Michigan | #722 | 10 | 1 in 5,203 |
| Georgia | #745 | 10 | 1 in 4,806 |
| Texas | #975 | 22 | 1 in 6,963 |
| Arizona | #1,002 | 5 | 1 in 6,389 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,062 | 6 | 1 in 9,677 |
| New York | #1,169 | 11 | 1 in 9,130 |
| California | #1,172 | 23 | 1 in 9,732 |
| Illinois | #1,217 | 7 | 1 in 10,177 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Caitlynn
- 1,266 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,860)
- 4,407 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #8,860)
- 6,305 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #8,860)
- Biggest jump: 172 spots in 1994 (#1,157 → #985)
- Biggest drop: 122 spots in 1995 (#985 → #1,107)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 1998 at #734 (297 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1996–2001
- Highest: 1 in 5,949 girls born in 1998 were named Caitlynn (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.4% of all girls named Caitlynn (2,050) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 191 | #1,629 (1989) | #3,202 |
| 1990s | 1,793 | #734 (1998) | #1,134 |
| 2000s | 2,050 | #821 (2000) | #1,153 |
| 2010s | 828 | #1,342 (2010) | #2,856 |
| 2020s | 85 | #4,453 (2020) | #8,450 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Caitlynn in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 6,628 of them was named Caitlynn, which outranked 95.4% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).